The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lIGMo Or lNIEh GoI.
ONE HUNDRED noble reds attended circus
performance in Yanlzton recently
WITHIN the last five months Harvard College
has received gifts amounting to $3.000.00o.
BEFORE the century is out it is estimated that
London will have population of 100000
FRANK Donaldson of Polo. Ill has been of
fered 500 for his two-legged calf, that stands
on two feet and walks around
MARTIN PEDEE, the colored man elected police
magistrate of CatIin. ILL.,, a few days ago paid
So 40 in Justice Nc dahan'S court Friday for an
ordinary plain drunk
The curfew bell will hereafter ring at Belding,
Mich. every night except Saturday and Sunday,
at O'Clock. when it is expected every store and
business place will be closed.
THE Chinese sailors at Portsmouth are cutting
out the British ars in the affections of the local
nurses and waiting maids They are not SO large,
but their manners are more engaging
A TORPEDO BOAT has been sent by train right
across France from Toulon to Cherbourg 1t
was placed on platform mounted on ten rail
way trucks, and Travelled without mshap.
WHILE stamping flies on an Eau Claire, Wis,
street horse cast the shoe of his right
feet with such force that it crashed through a
plate glass window, causing 500 damage
THE PHYSIQUE of the English soldier has i'm
proved very much during the last decade
During the years 1904 the reflections were 301
per 200. During 1895 there were only 206
A WOMAN OF "A years, who said she had walked
from Nova Scotia, and was bound for Newark.
N j., reached Bridgeport, Conn, on Wednes-
day She was supplied with funds to pay her
way to New York.
CARLISLE, Pa has dog that drinks beer and
eats pretzels with all the relish of Ravarian,
and, when he can get it, takes such copiouS
draughts of the Teutonc beverage that he be-
comes maudlin drunk.
ACCORDING to statistics, the average man
| throughout the civilized world annually con-
sumes AS pounds of grain, 70 pounds of meat
pounds of butter, and 20 pounds of sugar, of
the total value of t5 is.
Mr.. HEBRoN-ALLEN the expert in palmistry,
who few months since created such sensa-
ton in the East, is now blsily and seediy seek
ing employment as a clerk in the Pacific Mail
Company in New York.
LAST YEAR Pennsylvania produced $1,000, 600
tons of COAL of which 81 0OO, 900 were anthracite,
| the total value thereof being S93,0OOOO0. It's
value was greater than all the gold and silver
produced in the United States.
A PARTY of briGands were surprised near
Florence the other day, and the chief, upon
| being struck by two bullets, thought himself
wounded and surrendered. 1t found that
| he was only wounded in copy of Tasso he had
stolen from priest.
IT is found that good impression of any ar
| tcle of metal having fiat, ornamental surface,
may be taken by wetting some note paper with
the tongue and smoking it over a gas flame.
The article is then pressed upon the smoked
part, when, IL the operation be carefully con-
Quoted. clear impression is the result.
IT is SAID that ones turn to be killed on the
English railways does not come till 1887, 730
journeys have been made. That is to say that
that proportion of journeys has been made dur
ing the past year to each person who has been
killed; 75, 5S4, 800 journeys were made last year.
and only ninety-five passengers were killed.
ATA SALE of orchids in New York this week
interest centered in beautiful specimen of the
Vdndd sunderland, said TO be the largest in the
world. 1t was brought from India in 1880 to
London, and sold to the late Mrs Morgan for
400 guineas. At the Morgan sale it was pur-
chased by Mr.. Osborn for $780, 1t sold for $470
A MOST remarkable imitation of black walnut
has lately been manufactured from poor pine
the quality and appearance of the article being
such as to defy detection except upon very close
examination. To accomplish this, one part of
walnut peel extract is mixed with six parts of
water, and with this solution the wood is coated
When the material is half dry, solution of
bichromate of potash with water is rubbed on
it, and the made walnut is ready for use.
AT the last session Of the German Reichstag
there was curious instance of absent minded
ness. Herr Winchman was calling the roll of
members when, upon reading out bis own name.
he naturally received no response. He called
the name the second time in louder tone and
| finally roared it out like a healthy unged bull.
At this juncture his colleagues broke out into
such hearty laughthter that the truth dawned
upon him and he joined in the general hilarity.
THIRTYTwo years ago, when Mrs Helen Fra
| lick was little girl she was stolen from her
parents in Chicago while her mother was guest
at the former LaFe Street Hotel Mother and
daughter never met from that day till few
days ago. when her mother called at her house
in Syracuse. N. Y, and fully identified her long
lost daughter scar on Mrs. Fralick'S chin,
| and a portion of one of her fingers being cut
off, both of which marks she had borne since
childhood, satisfied the mother that she had
found her child.
THE Paris Figaro says that if you want your
children to have pretty teeth, you must begin
with the second dentition to press back with the
finger every morning the teeth which have a
tendency to project forward and to pull for
ward those which tend backward. AS a wash
boil in tumblerful of water pinch of quassia
wood with a pinch of pulverized cacao 1t
strengthens the gums and whitens the teeth
without injuring the enamel which covers the
bone. Wash the mouth after each meal with
lukewarm boiled water
A QUAINT OLD BRIDGE has been found in the
river Glen at Spalding, Lincolnshire where the
riverbed was being deepened for the constrIc-
ton of new bridge. Local tradition declared
| that bridge had existed there many years
back, and had been washed away by Storm
and now the lost structure itself has been I'M
earthed five feet below the bed of the stream
II was chiefly constructed of carved stones from
the Spalding monastery fulled down in 1887,
and numbers of carved cofin-lids and other rel
les were lying close by.
FRANK REEsER, of Frankfort, Oak, and the
daughter of a neighborng farmer decided to
| elope, because the girls parents didn't want
Frank for a son-in-law and to facilitate mat
tiers and provide against emergencies, the young
woma1 packed ier wardrobe III the daring
lovers trunk which he removed from the hotel
early in the mornings Whereupon the father
learning OF the situation, poulced upon nlm
| with warrant, and, without particle of SEMI
ment, had the young man arrested ON a charge
of larceny and put III Jail.
DR.. j. HANEY LOWELL of Philadelphia is a pro-
nounced vegetarian, believing that eating meat
is the cause of untold evils. He even thinks that
vegetariauism is the best rsmedy for intemper-
ance. His theory is that fesh-eating men have
an abnormal taste for drink, and tlat if men
will only confine themselves TO vegetable food
the desire for drink will De anita gonized mo
man, he says, who eats q pound of macaroni
daily viii become drunkard. What we want
is a temperance vegetarian restaur mt where